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SUNSET BEACH—Sunset Beach Town Councilwoman Carol Scott has taken issue with a suggestion the town board wouldn’t have to meet in regular monthly session next Monday night.

The suggestion came from town administrator Gary Parker at the board’s second day-long workshop of the month last Thursday. Parker suggested the board had covered enough ground during its May 24 and May 15 workshops and said it would be proper to cancel the monthly meeting “because of a lack of business.”

CALABASH—The Calabash Merchants Association will not be taking part in this year’s town Fourth of July festivities.

The association recently notified Calabash Town Administrator Chuck Nance it would not be a participant in the fourth annual event. The merchants association had partnered with the town for the annual holiday event for the past three years.

“My understanding is they felt like they couldn’t swing it,” Nance said last week.

Editor’s note: This is the second in a series of stories about West Brunswick High School graduate Ben McCune, who was injured in Afghanistan when the truck he was in struck an improvised explosive device (IED).

Ben McCune medically retired from the U.S. Army on May 15.

But it was a long road to retirement after being injured in Afghanistan when the truck he was in struck a 1,500-pound improvised explosive device (IED) in the Arghandab River Valley in Afghanistan.

BOLIVIA—For the first time in the history of the school system, the reduction in force (RIF) policy has been implemented for Brunswick County Schools.

The move affects 38 full-time bus drivers after board of education members voted last month to revert to a single-bell schedule for the upcoming school year.

Seventeen employees have been reduced to part-time employment through the RIF, while 20 employees have been hired into part-time custodial, child nutrition and full-time bus driver or teacher assistant positions.